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The contentious symbol of the Holy Spirit or the Pretender?
In a #ParodyPainting of the controversial altarpiece by #WilliamKent, a satirical artist #WilliamHogarth painted a #Cherub & a #GoldenFlyingBird. These symbols which appear in the #Apse in #StMaryleStrand show loyalty to the #Blackbird, despite the repeated claim that these symbols & the angel playing a harp, have no connection to #ThePretender, his wife Sobieska & children.
In Collection: Jacobite Symbolism
The #Jacobite nickname for #JamesEdwardStuart aka #ThePretender was the #Blackbird, a reference to his deposed father King James II; named ‘Black Boy’ by his Mother because of the darkness of his skin & eyes. The image of a #GoldenFlyingBird disguises the #Jacobite Blackbird symbol as the holy spirit descending to earth; also present in a #ParodyPainting inside #StClementDanes.
In Collection: Jacobite Symbolism
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In 1725, #Jacobite #FreeMason #WilliamKent made an altarpiece of St. Cecilia for #StClementDanes church, who rejected it because of its likeness to the wife of #ThePretender, Maria Clementina Sobieska. In a display of loyalty to #KingGeorgeI & to squash support to the competing claim to the throne by #JamesEdwardStuart, the altarpiece was removed.
In Collection: Jacobite Symbolism
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